boost::asio, threads and synchronization

Question

This is somewhat related to this question, but I think I need to know a little bit more. I\'ve been trying to get my head around how to do this for a few days (whilst working o

Answer 1

When data is received, how do people get the data back to the UI thread? In the past when I used completion ports, I made a special event that could post the data back to the main UI thread using a ::SendMessage. It wasn't elegant, but it worked

::PostMessage may be more appropriate.

Unless everything runs in one thread these mechanisms must be used to safely post events to the UI thread.